1. Krao Farini was an American sideshow performer who was born with hypertrichosis and took part in 19th-century exhibition tours in North America and Europe.
17 Facts About Krao Farini
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Krao Farini was adopted by William Leonard Hunt, known as Guillermo Antonio Farini, who exploited her appearance.
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Accounts from her early career have Krao Farini being born in Laos, then a province in the northern Rattanakosin Kingdom.
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Krao Farini's mother was detained in Bangkok and her father died from cholera.
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Krao Farini was described as having several anatomically unusual features in addition to her body hair, including an extra thoracic vertebra, an extra pair of ribs, cheek pouches, hypermobility of her joints, and a lack of cartilage in her ears and nose.
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Krao Farini claimed that about 1874 Carl Bock had been travelling in British-ruled Burma on behalf of William Leonard Hunt, known as "Guillermo Antonio Farini", in search of unusually tall people.
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Krao Farini offered the king of Burma $100,000 for them but was denied.
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The king refused due to the belief that his reign would come to an end if the Krao Farini people left the country.
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Krao Farini encountered thirty to forty of them but was unable to capture any.
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The entire expedition came down with cholera at Chiang Mai and Krao Farini's father died there.
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Bock was allowed to leave on the condition that Krao Farini would adopt her.
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Krao Farini was given the surname of Farini at some point after her capture by sideshow promoter Guillermo Antonio Farini when he adopted her.
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Krao Farini was still under the care of Dr George Shelly at the time.
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In 1899, Krao Farini did a tour of the British Isles that included appearances in Cardiff and Edinburgh.
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Krao Farini lived the last few years of her life in Brooklyn at 309 East Nineteenth Street.
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Krao Farini died from influenza on April 16,1926, in Manhattan.
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Krao Farini requested her body to be cremated in order to avoid her corpse being gawked at.